Hi Paul,
On Mar 22, 2011, at 11:59 AM, Paul-Michael Agapow wrote:
> Two questions, either of which may belong more on the developers list. But
> lets try here first:
>
> 1. As we migrate services to Galaxy, a stakeholder expressed concern at
> uploading large datafiles of “several gigabytes”. Given that we can require
> users to upload from an ftp site or something similar, does anyone have
> experience with how well this works with gigabyte-size files? I figure I can
> always write a tool to upload masses of data via a slow but robust method,
> but it would be good to know if this is required.
Large files are no problem and you may use an FTP site. Depending how much
bandwidth you have it may take some time though to move large files around.
Please see:
https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/Config/ProductionServer
for details on how to optimize uploads. Downloads are are different thing
though as right now you can only get them as an HTTP download.
> 2. Similarly, someone else wanted to know if Galaxy authorization could
> be plugged into another system, such as Active Directory. Any pointers on
> this, or will I have to cut some code?
Yes, using "external authentication" via an Apache proxy as described here:
https://bitbucket.org/galaxy/galaxy-central/wiki/Config/ApacheProxy
I'm using this to link my Galaxy to our University's LDAP and that works like a
charm :).
Cheers,
Pi
> thanks
>
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> Paul Agapow (paul-michael.aga...@hpa.org.uk)
> Bioinformatics, Centre for Infections, Health Protection Agency
>
>
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